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HSK
musical composition
HSK 6
song
HSK 5
Chinese opera
HSK 6
to distort / to misrepresent
HSK 7-9
to twist / to warp / to distort
HSK 7-9
fortune cookie
winding / (fig.) complicated
HSK 7-9
crooked
cubic curve (geometry)
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)
to compose (music)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁
medicated leaven (used in TCM to treat indigestion)
Shanghai opera / same as 滬劇|沪剧
Quyang, a county in Baoding City 保定市, Hebei
to bend / to curve around / curved / crooked / to wind / to warp
HSK 6
theme song
curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way
HSK 7-9
Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times
symphony
shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz
March of the Volunteer Army (PRC National Anthem)
composer / songwriter
different tunes played with equal skill (idiom) / different methods leading to the same result / different approach but equally satisfactory outcome
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tune / song / CL:
HSK 7-9
trilogy
lullaby
poem for singing / tune / music / CL:
quadratic curve (geometry) / conic
waltz
prelude (music)
popular song / folk tune / ballad
HSK 7-9
rhapsody (music)
tetralogy
overture
concerto
curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)
to compose a piece of music
composer / song writer
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧, Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧, Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧 etc
quadratic curve / conic section (geometry)
lit. right and wrong, crooked and straight (idiom); fig. merits and demerits / pros and cons
to misrepresent / to misinterpret
jigsaw
coiled / entwined / tortuous
brewer's yeast
tune / melody
winding and turning (idiom)
suite (music)
music style; music genre
to compose (music) / arrangement
(math.) elliptic curve
Yuan dynasty theater, including poetry, music and comedy
crankshaft
red yeast (so called, although it's actually a mold, not a yeast), a fermentation product created by culturing rice with the mold Monascus purpureus, producing red pigments and bioactive compounds, used in food for its color, as a flavor enhancer, and for its health benefits
field hockey
(math.) hyperboloid
(loanword) fugue
line graph / line diagram
falsification in writing / misrepresentation in written history / deliberate digression
folk musical theater
conic section
(archery) recurve bow
to sing a song
to feel wronged; to feel aggrieved / (in set phrases such as 委曲求全) to yield; to make concessions / (literary) winding; tortuous; indirect / (literary) detailed; elaborate
dance music
universal bevel (to measure angles)
single (recording industry)
(math.) algebraic curve
Luqu, a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州, Gansu
(military) curved-trajectory fire / plunging fire
curve fitting
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surname Qu
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bent / crooked / wrong
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fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc) / Taiwan pr. [qu2]
hyperbola
famous song / well-known piece of music
rondo
twisted / coiled / curled
steel set square (tool to measure right angles)
music played during a movie, play etc / incidental music / music played in a theatrical interlude / (fig.) incident / episode
Yuanqu county in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi
curved / meandering / zigzagging
lullaby
paper clip
Hequ county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
bend (of a river) / meander
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles
(math.) curvature
curved surface / surface
temple to Confucius in his hometown Qufu
divertimento (music)
to accept a compromise
serenade
variation (music)
(of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists
to warp / to bend / fig. distorted opinion / prejudice
hyperbolic geometry
electronic dance music

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